
Persian Prince
With its title borrowed from Machiavelli, The Persian Prince goes far beyond Machiavelli''s wildest imagination as to how to rule the world. Hamid Dabashi articulates a bold new idea of the Persian Prince—a metaphor of political authority, a figurative ideal deeply rooted in the collective memories of multiple nations, and a literary construct that connected Muslim empires across time and space an...
With its title borrowed from Machiavelli, The Persian Prince goes far beyond Machiavelli''s wildest imagination as to how to rule the world. Hamid Dabashi articulates a bold new idea of the Persian Prince—a metaphor of political authority, a figurative ideal deeply rooted in the collective memories of multiple nations, and a literary construct that connected Muslim empires across time and space an...